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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: September 06, 2005
- Total Downloads: 397,009
- Downloads last week: 4,251
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 202 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Notepad is a Notepad replacement with an eye toward programmers, although it should also appeal to the casual user who wants a cross between Notepad and WordPad. Notepad has some noticeable differences from WordPad. Support for tabs is key, letting users manage different documents simultaneously. Line-numbering is important, too, a feature that nobody mucking about in C should be without.
The interface is much simpler compared with some of its competitors. A familiar row of icons with their mouse-over labels sits at the top, and one row of tabs is just below that. The rest of the screen is made of nothing but pure white space. All the coding tools live in the menu bar, with some represented on the toolbar. Users can compile and run macros, convert text to Hex, submit directly to W3C for validation, launch in Firefox and IE, and more. There's also a built-in spell-checker.
Choosing between Notepad and NoteTab Light probably will depend as much on layout as anything else. Although, forgive the pun, notably Notepad can not autoreplace Notepad, it's still an excellent Notepad replacement.
Publisher's description
From Don HO :Notepad++ is a free (under the GPL license) source code editor which supports several programming languages under Windows environment. It's also a lightweight replacement of Notepad. The supported languages by Notepad++ are: C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC file, makefile, nfo, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, Unix Shell Script, Fortran, NSIS and Flash action script. Notepad++ main features are: Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding, User Language Define System, Regular Expression Search, WYSIWYG (If you have a color printer, print your source code in color), Unicode support, Full Drag & Drop supported, Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting, 2 edits and synchronized view of the same document, User Language Define System.
Version 3.2 can save/load project (or session) files. As well, Notepad++ remembers the opened files in the last session and can open them at the launch time.
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User reviews of Notepad++ 3.2
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 202 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Notepad++ 3.2
"Light-Weight as well as Highly Functional"
Pros: I love this simple due to its many feature, yet it is light weight:
(1) Code Grouping,
(2) Syntax Highlighting,
(3) Can run external commands on F5, (usually not available in simple editors).
Cons: I don't really see any ...
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Notepad++ 3.2
"I decided to comment on this one in < 3 mins."
Pros: Notepad (Standard) was not cutting it for my goofing around with PHP, so I looked for something better and found Notepad++. I installed, ran, pasted, and told it the language to format under and that was it. The program became color co-ordinated, white-space indentation converted to Tabbed indentation with ease, there was even a subtle line drawn down the page showing where nested indentations went to.
There is also a dynamic color mode matching opening brackets with it's correspnding closing brackets, but that's not all, you can collapse and expand these bracketed sections using a tastefully thin tree system on the side between the line numbering column and the actual text.
I've still only used it for maybe 10 minutes, but I already highly recommend it.
Cons: I have not used it long enough to find something I don't like, but I suspect I'd have to use it for a long time before something comes up.
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Version: Notepad++ 3.2
"The most useful piece of software I've downloaded in the last 6 years"
Pros: This program is brilliant - it has everything you've ever wanted in a lightweight text editor - syntax highlighting, dual windows, auto updating of active files. Plus it's fast and feature-full. A must for every contactor, because no sys-admin can object to you installing it.
Cons: None.
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Version: Notepad++ 3.2
"It's great editor for HTML and CSS but it also has many other languages"
Pros: Very nice.. It makes HTML, CSS.... files very clean and it is easy to code and find anything you want
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Version: Notepad++ 3.2
"A Very good Replacement for Windows Notepad"
Pros: Just replace the windows useless Notepad and enjoy with this Adv-Notepad
Cons: -
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